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2012 Republican primary spoiler
There's been a lot of writing lately about how the Republican primary is a dead heat, and there's a lot of ambivalence, and it's anybody's guess what's going to happen. I've even seen some speculation that there could be a brokered convention. Woo! Humdinger of a primary we got ourselves, folks ( Read more... ) -
Crackpot Du Jour
The conservative nutball vote goes to:- Sarah Palin
- Michele Bachmann
- Ron Paul
- Rick Santorum
- Rick Perry
- Hermann Cain
- Newt Gingrich
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Take me in
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For all the points of the compass there is only one direction
Rosencrantz: We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloody and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass there is only one direction, and time is its only measure.
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Live. Live. You ( Read more... ) -
RIP Steve Jobs
"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going ( Read more... ) -
The Be Party
The Occupy Wall Street thing is starting to get on my nerves a bit, and in particular it's starting to feel like the Tea Party of the left. Disorganized, driven mainly by ill-focused outrage, lacking both knowledge regarding the things they're upset about and the interest to, you know, apply critical thinking or apply facts or analyze causality or ( Read more... ) -
Idiots Out Wandering Around
The straw poll in Iowa is a perfect demonstration of how the primary system in this country biases towards political polemics - i.e. really awful results.
Worse yet, it's the parties themselves that control this process, and the parties are controlled by those who demonstrate the most vivid zealotry, so basically? We're fucked. -
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A good kill
Twenty-three state representatives and four state senators of South Dakota are sponsoring a bill to make it legal to kill a person who assists in the provision of abortion services: FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children ( Read more... ) -
Metaphors well mixed, clauses well dangled
A couple of days ago I heard the following on NPR: "It's hard to see the big picture when you're circling the wagons to protect your slice of the pie." That makes for a vivid visual, I have to say ( Read more... )